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Title

Confronting poverty : prescriptions for change / edited by Sheldon H. Danziger, Gary D. Sandefur, Daniel H. Weinberg.

Publication

New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Danziger, Sheldon
• Sandefur, Gary D., 1951-
• Weinberg, Daniel H.

Description

viii, 529 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Comprises 16 chapters dealing with efforts to address poverty in the USA during the period mid-1980s to mid-1990s. Considers the extent of poverty, the effectiveness of antipoverty programmes and policies, and the political constraints on the formation of antipoverty policy.

Subject

• Poverty > United States > Congresses
• Public welfare > United States > Congresses
• United States > Social policy > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "The chapters in this volume were initially presented at a conference held in May 1992 in Madison, Wisconsin, jointly sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-517) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The historical record : trends in family income, inequality, and poverty / Sheldon H. Danziger and Daniel H. Weinberg -- Public spending on the poor : historical trends and economic limits / Gary Burtless -- The dynamics and intergenerational transmission of poverty and welfare participation / Peter Gottschalk, Sara Mclanahan, and Gary D. Sandefur -- The underclass : concept, controversy, and evidence / Ronald B. Mincy -- Poverty in relation to macroeconomic trends, cycles, and policies / James Tobin -- The employment strategy : public policies to increase work and earnings / Rebecca M. Blank --
• (cont.) Single-mother families, economic insecurity, and government policy / Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan -- Updating urban policy / Jeffrey S. Lehman -- Reform of health care for the nonelderly poor / Barbara L. Wolfe -- Education and the well-being of the next generation / Richard J. Murnane -- Systemic educational reform and social mobility : the school Choice controversy / Charles F. Manski -- Poverty and immigration in policy perspective / Marta Tienda and Zai Liang -- Anitpoverty policy, affirmative action, and racial attitudes / Lawrence Bobo and Ryan A. Smith -- Poverty politics / Hugo Heclo -- The nature, causes, and cures of poverty : accomplishments from three decades of poverty research and policy / Robert Haveman.

ISBN

• 0674160819 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0674160827 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^93050929^

OCLC

• 29635168
• SCSB-10192369

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library